page_title: March 1964
section_title: March 22, 1964 (Sunday)
hierarchical_section_title: March 1964 / March 22, 1964 (Sunday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Front views of the Venus de Milo
context_page_description: The following events occurred in March 1964:
context_section_description: Venus de Milo, the famed 2000 year old Greek statue was found to be slightly damaged as it arrived in Yokohama for transfer to the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo on loan from the Louvre Museum in Paris.  Already missing both of its arms, the statue was found to have sustained four chips "from the folds of her robe below the hip on the left side".  Venus de Milo had been shipped from Marseilles on February 18 on board the French ocean liner Vietnam.
  PIDE, the security police for the dictatorship in Portugal, announced in a press release that it had arrested several extremists who were plotting to overthrow Portuguese Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar and President Francisco Franco of Spain.  According to the police, the plotters were going to unite the two neighboring republics into a single Union of Iberia, to be ruled by a former Portuguese presidential candidate, General Umberto Delgado.
  The 1964 USAC Championship Car season began  at Avondale, Arizona, with the Phoenix 100, won by A. J. Foyt.
  The 1964 Women's Western Open golf tournament in Florida, was won by Carol Mann.
  Born: Nicholas Patrick, British-born American astronaut; in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire
caption: Damaged further in shipping
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